Quotes About Poverty

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

My family were really poor.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

My aim has always been to defend the secular foundation of our nation and the poor of our country - the creed sacred to Indiraji and Rajivji.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

I love 'Babette's Feast' because of the message in it - an artist will never be poor, and you can melt the coldest heart with love and passion.

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas.